Life should be great rather than long.

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes